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[weilkin]

Which kind of people play Total War games? Are they familiar with military history? Before I purchased Empire Total War I had already read two books covering naval warfare in 17th century and 18th century (Four Days Battle of 1666 and Trafalgar campaign of 1805). Before purchasing Napoleon Total War, I had already seen some documentaries about Waterloo, Austerlitz, Borodino and read some articles about Nile Battle and a book of Napoleonic Wars. I admit that I have Shogun 2 but still I have to read some books about the period.

In other strategy games/tactical simulators I know about people with very good knowledge of the military period of the game, just as an example, in Scourge of War Waterloo there are players with outstanding knowledge of Napoleonic Warfare, even some of them knows every single detail of Waterloo battle. Regarding the naval tactical/strategy simulators "Jutland" and "Distant Guns" there are players with good knowledge about the naval warfare of the period, I read some stuff of naval warfare in Russo-Japanese war.

Do you think Total War players, at least those who play historical titles, have a good knowledge of the military history of the periods they are playing?

[Dismounted Feudal Knight]

Making another thread after a mod merged it is just going to cause trouble, mate.

[Leonardo]

Making another thread after a mod merged it is just going to cause trouble, mate.

Indeed.


I have restored the original thread which is now closed as a duplicate. Do not post a similiar thread in any forum and doing so the thread can either be closed or deleted at the discretion of the moderators.

A similiar thread was posted a few days ago and I merge it with the other thread, but this time I will close this one and remind people not to post a similiar thread as that violates the ToS.

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